[LM_NET] Dealing with difficult children/disruptive children----TARGET

[Robert <robert@GCRONLINE.COM>]

Now that the school year is over for most of us, I am asking to look back on 
your year if you can provide me any helpful & accomplished 
techniques/strategies for dealing with a difficult/disruptive child in the 
library media center.  He will be a 5th grader and comes from an unpleasant 
home environment and background   .  He knows how to push my buttons and 
this past school year was a year of torement and torture.  I have done all I 
can do although I have thought of some new ideas.  I need some ways to "win 
him over" for one final year & 56 visits. I as a human being and employee 
should not have to endure the torture and torement.  Some of the kids in the 
class "egged him on"  and fed him what he wanted. So, his classmates were 
also a challenge as much as he was. The only relief to me this past school 
year was sending him to the principal, but this was each visit. That's what 
he wanted.  Everything we attempted to do instructionally resulted in his 
comment "I don't get this" even when I paired him up with a buddy. With the 
temperment of both the child and the class, I did not get anything 
accomplished with the class as a whole.  I have checked lm net archives 
under dealing with / disruptive / difficult/ children and nothing there.

 I am interested in hearing from anyone who has walked in my shoes and their 
successess.

Many, many thanks !

Robert Joyce
School Librarian/Library Media Specialist
Virginia
robert@gcronline.com 

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